Doll and costume



B. CAMPBELL DOLL .AND COSTUME Jan. 14, 1936.

Filed Nov. 15, 1952 INVENTOR- ATTOR Patented Jan. 14, 1936 UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE The subject of this invention is a paper doll and a costume therefor and while I am aware that paper dolls with attachable costumes have been known in the past. the object of this invention is to provide a doll which may be a printed paper doll made as a flat sheet of paper printed. on both sides of the sheet and with costumes so constructed that when the dollis dressed. the doll appears to have a body of thickness, weight and contour suflicient to support a costume and in fact to fill out the costume so that the usual flatness of paper dolls is overcome and so that the costume may assumethe shape and outline that would be present were the doll formedwith a body padded,

1.5 as is customary with more lifelike filled or stuffed dolls.

Another object of the invention is to so construct and design the costumes that .when assembled on the doll the parts of the costume will project from the body of the doll and the doll assembly will be given a more artistic and attractive appearance.

Another object of the invention is to so construct the costumes that the doll when dressed will be fully clothed, the sides of the gowns or dresses will not be open, in fact the back and front and all sides will be included in the costume and yet the costume may beremoved and costumes changed as and when desired.

The special object of the invention is to give to a dressed paper doll a more lifelike finish and therefore artistic appearance and to make it possible to use costumes that are more complete, more fully designed and more extravagant in their development than has previously been found possible with paper dolls or flat lay figures.

The following is what I consider the best means of carying out my invention and the accompanying drawing should be referred to for a complete understanding of the specification which follows.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 shows a back view of the doll.

Fig. 2 a front view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a flat View of a jacket.

Fig. 4 a flat'view of a dress, and.

Fig. 5 a view looking upward at the dresed doll.

Similar reference numerals indicate likeparts in all the figures where they appear.

The doll figures may be the figure of anadult or child, but should be attractive and properly proportioned. The figure, which is indicated as a whole by the reference character I, is formed as a cut-out from a flat sheet of properly printed paper, the paper being printed on both the front and the back and at least a part of the underclothing being printed upon the figure and made a part thereof. The cut-out portion will not then be confined to the doll figure but will include in its outline certain underclothing representations as indicated at U in Fig. 2. Secured low down and 5 upon the plane of the feet is an easel support as shown at 2 which retains the doll figure in an upright position. The doll figure need not be a dressed figure or it may have imprinted thereon V representations of such ordinary underclothing 10 as will not distort the general outline of the doll figure;

The costumes for the doll may, of course, be made in any design, but attention is called to the fact that thecostumes are not cut to conform "15 to the outline of the doll figure, but are in fact of much greater area than the doll figure. The skirt portion 3 of the dress as shown in-Fig. 4 is a rather large sector attached to the waist or bodice portion 4 at the lower edge thereof only, spaces, 20 being provided at 5 and 6 between the upper or 7 highest edges I and 8 of the skirt portion and the next adjacent edges of the waist or bodice.

The skirt is providedwith a plurality of securing means which may consist of buttons or tabs 25 as shown at 9 and HI and complementary buttonholes or slots as shown at I l and i2.

Formed with the waist portion 43 is a portion it which is intended to extend across the shoulders of the doll figure and down the back thereof. 30 This upper extension is also provided with tabs as shown at M and I5. These tabs may be undecorated and when a dress is applied the upper extension I3 is folded about on the dotted lines It and I1 and thereupon the remaining portion 35 of the upper extension It and the tabs it and it become the backof the dress.

When the dress is folded as indicated and placed upon the doll figure, the skirt portion is bent into a general 'cone shape as indicated at H8 in Fig. 2 4 and the edges of the skirt are fastened together and thereupon the skirt assumes the particular position as indicated by the circle IS in Fig. 5, the doll being shown at l and its support at 2 in this figure. 45

Now the jacket may be placed upon the doll figure. The jacket should befirst foldedalong the lines indicated at 20 and 2i, but this, fold should not be a-sharp fold but rather a bend. The collar portion 22 of the jacket may also be 50 folded approximately upon the lines 23 and 24, so that the extensions of the collar fall gracefully down the back, but over the portions 25 and 26 of the jacket. The parts 25 and 26 are retained togetherby thev fastening means shown at 21 and 28 and when completed as described the doll figure will be fully dressed and the costume will stand out away from the doll figure just as though the doll was itself padded in such a manner as to retain the costume projected.

Of course it may be understood that costumes of any design may be constructed in the manner as set forth and that the size and proportions of all parts may be changed at will and that other modifications may be made within the scope of the appended claims. without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of the invention.

Having carefully and fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to obtain is:

l. A garmented doll including a. fiat doll body of but two substantial dimensions, in combination with a three dimensional garment of stifi sheet material loosely hung on and encircling the doll and standing out on all sides away from the flat doll body, said garment terminating in a flattened upper portion fitted to the shoulders of the doll body and suspending the garment by supporting engagement with said shoulders.

2. A garmented doll including a fiat doll body of sheet material of but two substantial dimenaoaaiab sions in combination with a loose garment of stifl sheet material of shorter length than the doll hung on and supported by the doll body, said garment comprising a fitted upper portion flattened to substantially conform to the flat cross-section of the doll and engagable with and hanging the garment from the shoulders of the doll body, said garment flaring outwardly below said fitted supporting portion into a body encircling portion of substantial width and depth which completely surrounds and stands out on all sides in spaced relation to the fiat doll body. 3. A garmented doll including a full length cut-out doll body of but two substantial dimensions having a supporting base at its lower end, in combination with a garment of stiflf sheet material, said garment terminating short or the base and being formed with a substantially conical cross-section increasing in size from top to bottom so as to loosely and completely encircle and stand out in all directions in spaced relation to the fiat doll body, the garment at its upper end terminating in an integral flattened portion providing a yoke adapted to loosely hang the garment from the shoulders of the doll.

BETTY CAMPBELL. 

